Latest Workers' Compensation Headlines
All the headlines from our Workers' Compensation Topic Page, ordered by recency.
State Fund Withdraws Plans for Home Office Expansion
Jun 15 2005 // State Compensation Insurance Fund has announced it has decided to not move forward with the plans for the construction of a new office building adjacent to its headquarters at 1275 Market Street in San Francisco. When the...
Roofing Contractor Pleads Guilty to Workers’ Comp Fraud
Jun 15 2005 // California Insurance Commissioner John Garamendi announced that a Landers roofing contractor has pled guilty to workers’ compensation premium fraud and other charges. Michael Louis Curran, 50, pled guilty on June 8,...
Insurers, Military at Odds over Workers’ Comp Program for Civilian Contractors
Jun 15 2005 // Several media outlets reported this week that the Defense Department is looking to revamp a controversial $5.5 billion workers’ compensation insurance program for its civilian contractors overseas after reportedly...
Hair Joins Utah’s Workers Compensation Fund
Jun 14 2005 // Dan Hair joined Workers Compensation Fund as senior vice president, safety and underwriting. Hair began his insurance career with the State Compensation Insurance Fund of California in 1976, and he recently ended a 25-year...
Workers’ Comp Changes Worry Wyoming Businesses
Jun 14 2005 // Owners of small businesses say they worry that their insurance rates would increase under a proposed change to Wyoming’s workers’ compensation law. But larger employers say the change would end their subsidy of...
Bridgefield Casualty Adds Workers’ Comp to N.C. Market
Jun 12 2005 // Bridgefield Casualty Insurance Company, a subsidiary of Summit Holding Southeast Inc., announced that it is expanding its operations to North Carolina. Bridgefield Casualty is rated “A” (Excellent) by A.M. Best...
N.D. Comp Rates to Rise 2%
Jun 10 2005 // The agency that manages North Dakota’s monopoly workers’ compensation system announced that premium rates will rise an average of 2 percent beginning July 1, 2005. The agency, Workforce Safety & Insurance,...
Texas Comp Rulebook Supplement Available Online
Jun 10 2005 // The Texas Workers’ Compensation Commission announced that the Workers’ Compensation Act and Commission Rulebook Supplement 2005-03 is available online. The rulebook can be updated by printing the 2005-03 Rules...
28 Suspects Arrested in Fla. Sweep of Workers’ Compensation Cheats
Jun 10 2005 // A three-day statewide sweep has resulted in 28 arrests of suspects arrested for violations of Florida workers’ compensation laws according to Tom Gallagher, Florida CFO. The sweep is the latest move in a campaign to...
AIA: Texas Legislative Session a Success; Next Meeting in 2007
Jun 9 2005 // The Texas Legislature adjourned sine die last week, and the American Insurance Association (AIA) is reportedly very pleased with the end results. “When legislators first convened in Austin in January, expectations...
Okla. DOL Wrestles with End of Workers’ Comp Non-Coverage Program
Jun 9 2005 // The Oklahoma Department of Labor reported it is trying to determine the extent of the impact of the Legislature’s decision to repeal two sections of Oklahoma law and abolish the Certificate of Non-Coverage (CNC)...
Nev. Legislature Wraps Up Session
Jun 9 2005 // The Nevada Legislature wrapped up its session this week, passing a number of insurance-related bills, but failed to take an opportunity to enact proposals that would have modernized Nevada’s regulation of insurance...
AIA Applauds Passage of Okla. Workers’ Comp Bill
Jun 8 2005 // In a significant victory for AIA and the business community, the Oklahoma legislature last Friday passed a comprehensive workers’ compensation reform bill (SB 1X). Passage came during a special legislative session...
R.I. Court Clears Way for Benefits to Nightclub Fire Victims’ Families
Jun 7 2005 // The Rhode Island Supreme Court has lifted a stay on the payment of about $180,000 in death benefits to the families of four employees killed in The Station nightclub fire. The owners of the club, Jeffrey and Michael...
Friedlander’s N.Y. United Restaurants’ Safety Group Pays 40% Dividend
Jun 7 2005 // The Friedlander Group Inc., the group manager for United Restaurants of New York Workers’ Compensation Safety Group #556, underwritten by the N.Y. State Insurance Fund, paid a 40 percent dividend to approximately 740...
Undercover on Underwriting: Spitzer Spills AIG’s Secrets in Civil Complaint
Jun 6 2005 // AG Targets Ex-Execs Greenberg and Smith; AIG Restates Financials; Is Settlement Next? From the 1980s until recently, insurance giant American International Group and its top executives “routinely engaged in...
WORKERS COMP RATES UP 3%:
Jun 6 2005 // Massachusetts Insurance Commissioner Julianne Bowler has approved a 3.0 percent overall average rate reduction in workers’ compensation rates, a savings of $32.6 million in premiums paid by employers. The new rates...
WORKERS’ COMP WRITERS SEEK 16% HIKE:
Jun 6 2005 // The New York Compensation Insurance Rating Board has submitted a filing for an average 16.1 percent rate increase effective Oct. 1, 2005. This filing came at the same time that the board withdrew its bid for a 9.5 percent...
Coins of the Realm
Jun 6 2005 // You’ve probably heard by now about what happened in Ohio. The administrator of the state’s Bureau of Workers’ Compensation, Robert Conrad, has resigned amid a scandal over hundreds of missing coins. But...
New PD Regs to Reduce Work Comp Rates
Jun 6 2005 // New permanent disability regulations will reduce the cost of workers’ compensation insurance pure premium rates by anywhere from three to 12 percent, said California Insurance Commissioner John Garamendi in a recent...
